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Witty, shocking, and instructive, 10 Books That Screwed Up the World offers a quick education on the worst ideas in. .Here with the antidote is Professor Benjamin Wiker.

Witty, shocking, and instructive, 10 Books That Screwed Up the World offers a quick education on the worst ideas in human history-and how we can avoid them in the future. In his scintillating new book, 10 Books That Screwed Up the World (and 5 Others That Didn’t Help), he seizes each of these evil books by its malignant heart and exposes it to the light of day. In this witty, learned, and provocative exposé, you’ll learn:, Why Machiavelli’s The Prince was the inspiration for a long list of tyrannies (Stalin had it on his nightstand).

Here with the antidote is Professor Benjamin Wiker. Benjamin Wiker is a writer, teacher, lecturer, husband of one wife, and father of seven children. in Theological Ethics from Vanderbilt University, an . in Religion from Vanderbilt University, and a . in Political Philosophy from Furman University.

This book is a companion to my 10 Books Every Conservative Must Read, which takes readers on a tour of the good .

This book is a companion to my 10 Books Every Conservative Must Read, which takes readers on a tour of the good books, the books that your children should be reading even if their professors aren't assigning them. From the Inside Flap. In his scintillating new book, 10 Books That Screwed Up the World (And 5 Others That Didn't Help), he seizes each of these evil books by its malignant heart and exposes it to the light of day. In this witty, learned, and provocative exposé, you'll learn

Witty, shocking, and instructive, 10 Books That Screwed Up the World offers a quick education on the worst ideas . Quite a few people hated it giving it only one star, and a few admitted that they were so upset they never finished it. Two people were so incensed that they said they wanted to physically harm the author. Witty, shocking, and instructive, 10 Books That Screwed Up the World offers a quick education on the worst ideas in human history-and how we can avoid them in the future.

Wiker draws a sound line through Machiavelli and Social Darwinism to Nazi-ism, but his attempt to paint Hobbes with the same brush is unconvincing

Wiker draws a sound line through Machiavelli and Social Darwinism to Nazi-ism, but his attempt to paint Hobbes with the same brush is unconvincing. He exposes the mythical basis of liberal philosophy, but does not quite explain the superiority of the Christian mythology and what's so bad about doing whatever we want as long as it does not directly hurt others.

You've heard of the Great Books?These are their evil opposites. You've heard of the "Great Books"? These are their evil opposites. From Machiavelli's The Prince to Karl Marx's The Communist Manifesto to Alfred Kinsey's Sexual Behavior in the Human Male, these "influential" books have led to war, genocide, totalitarian oppression, family breakdown, and disastrous social experiments.

p38 Hobbes' "way out" of this state of war screwed up things even more. Out of the chaos, an agreement to mutually limit each person's liberty

p14 "Machiavelli is the original ns philosopher. p15 "necessity, if one is to be a great prince, of being a great pretender. p38 Hobbes' "way out" of this state of war screwed up things even more. Out of the chaos, an agreement to mutually limit each person's liberty. But this gives a picture of society as something alien to our nature, but just a necessary strategy to avoid the "poor, nasty, brutish and short" life.

Benjamin Wiker brilliantly and wittily distills some of history’s most dangerous and damaging thinking in "10 Books That Screwed Up the World: And 5 Others That Didn’t Help"

Benjamin Wiker brilliantly and wittily distills some of history’s most dangerous and damaging thinking in "10 Books That Screwed Up the World: And 5 Others That Didn’t Help". From Machiavelli’s "The Prince" to Karl Marx’s "The Communist Manifesto" to Alfred Kinsey’s "Sexual Behavior in the Human Male", these influential books have led to war, genocide, totalitarian oppression, family breakdown, and disastrous social experiments